Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-04
ALSO, A NATURAL TRADE CENTER.
A Glance az the Commercial A<iyan-
tages and Importance Of
che Capital City.
IT'S AGRICULTURAL AND HORTI-
CULTURAL INTERESTS.
The Breeding Farms of Fine Horses
Cattle and Other Stock The Fa-
nous Orchards, Vineyards and
Vegetable Farms-Etc

The REcoRD-UNIoN presents herewith &
map, in outline, showing the immediate
railroad connections of the city of Saera.
mento. 1t will serve to illustrate in fair
degree the commercial centrality of the
city of Sacramento, and which is given new
Importance by the practical completion Of
the railway from Sacramento to the city OF
Portland, Oregon. 1t would have been
very agreeable to us, had time served, to
have shown upon this map all the branch
roads relating to the California railroad
system, but the map was adjusted to our
space on short order, and some of the
connections were not drawn in. The
reader must therefore relate to the Sacra-
mento area some outlying branch and con-
Meeting roads not shown; as, for instance,
THE NARRow-GAUGE
Line from Nevada City to Colfax, the road
leading from Elmira northerly into an ex-
ceediDg rich section; the narrow-gauge
line crossing the main system at Lodi, and
known as the San joaquin and Sierra Ne
vada: So too, the road now under con-
struction from out Sonoma county to con-
meet with the trunk system in Solane
county, near Benicia. Also the projected
lines to tap the Lake county and Men
docino sections, and the line from
the town of Colusa to the Northern
Railway, are all tributary to the COM
merce Of Sacramento. But the purpose is
to show the immediate railroad connec-
tions of this city. Sacramento was orig
inally merely the head of navigation for
the class of steamers capable of navigating
the bay, and from this point boats navi-
gated the upper Sacramento and the
Feather rivers as they still do. In 1852 the
SACRAMENTO VALLEY RAILROAD
Was constructed from this city to Folsom,
and connection was thereafter made by
rail with Shingle Springs, ard only the
other day the REcoRD-UNIoN published
the gratifying news that the line
is at once to be extended to Placer
vile, thus opening the rich timber,
fruit, vine and mineral lands Of FL Dorado
TO the Sacramento market, making this
city the depot for the trade and traffic Of
one of the richest and most promising
sections of the State Following the
building of the Sacramento Valley road
came the
CENTRAL PACIFIC
Eastward from Sacramento, and opening
up to our trade all the central mountain
and all the transmontane and territorial
region on the east and northeast. Upon
the heels of the Central Pacific came the
construction of the Western Pacific, now
a part of the Central Pacific system, and
operated with it by the Southern Pacific
Company. This road leads southerly and
then westerly from Sacramento, traversing
the richest portion of the lower Sacra-
mento valley, crossing the San Joaquin
valley and thence through the fruitful
regions Of eastern Alameda and to San
Francisco. Subsequently line from
Tracy followed down the natural water
shed to tide water and along the shore Of
Suisun bay to MARTINEZ, uniting there with
the line skirting the southern coast o.
San Pablo bay reaching Oakland through
the richest shore lands of Contra Costs
county. Following the building of the
Western Pacific came the consolidation O
the
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC RAILROAD
With the Central Pacific system. Thi
road leads from Sacramento across tn,
low lands on the west of the Sacrament,
river, through Yolo and Solano counties t,
Benicia, where it connects with the liz
for San Francisco. Just referred to. Orig
inally this road terminated at Vallejo, bu
latterly cutoff was built from Suisun t
Benicia. The original line, however, i
operated from Suisun to Vallejo, and con
meets with the Napa valley system, an
will presently, by connection with a lin
coming out of Sonoma county, relate Sac
ramento directly with the Sonoma coas
region and the Sonoma system of railway
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Road from Lathrop down the great Sa
joaquin valley came next in histori
order. The connections made with TIL
road, and which are of Importance TO tn
trade of Sacramento, aside from il
through business to the far south and Ar
zona Territory, are the Stockton and Coy
peropoiis road, the road from Gait, in thi
county, 10 lone, in Ams9or county; the Sa
Joaquir and Sierra Nevada road, crossir
the line at Lodi, in Sar joaquin county
the arms of the trunk line from Mix
10 San Jose, connecting this city d
rectly with the Santa Clara vale,
and with Monterey, Santa Cruz and the ric
coast valleTs south from Moaterey now per
etrated by rail, and which is TO lap til
whole line Of coast section seuthward.
THE CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
Railroad was, perhaps, next to the COZ
struction of the Central Paci5e, the mo.
sr1portant road for Sacramento 1t rur
ffem Sacramento Eorthward up the Who'll
length of the great Sacramento valley, an
lat;ssIs has, after overcoming topograph
ical difficulties of greatest magnitude, bee
pushed by its constructors TO the Orego
line. or 20 near to it that but a few mile
will be needed to close up the gap
Here it will unite with the Oregon
and California Railroad owned by th
same company and now operated from tn
State line to Portland. 1t cuts scToss tn
Rogue River valley; ons of the